Scotopezia Van Vooren, Sammut & P.Alvarado, 2023
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2023v44a12 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10421960 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B2F924-2905-FFB6-FEC2-FA4DFDAFF863 |
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treatment provided by |
Plazi |
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scientific name |
Scotopezia Van Vooren, Sammut & P.Alvarado |
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gen. nov. |
Genus Scotopezia Van Vooren, Sammut & P.Alvarado , gen. nov.
ETYMOLOGY. — From ancient Greek σκόΤΟς (skótos), meaning obscurity, darkness, and πέΖΙς (pezis) meaning “fungus without stipe”, referring to the dark colour of apothecia.
TYPE SPECIES. — Scotopezia pseudoanthracina (Donadini) Van Vooren, Sammut & P.Alvarado , comb. nov.
MYCOBANK NUMBER. — MB 849115.
DESCRIPTION
Ascomata gregarious, epigeous, discoid, sessile, brown to black coloured. Flesh without latex. Asci operculate, with croziers, having a diffusely but inconstantly amyloid wall in iodine solution. Ascospores globose, uniguttulate, warted. Paraphyses embedded at the top with a yellowish-brown exudate. Excipulum of textura globulosa / subglobulosa. Anamorph unknown. Trophic status unknown.
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Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage |
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